Grandma's Feather Bed

Words and Music by Jim Connor
from Back Home Again (1974)


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When I was a little bitty boy
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just up off a floor
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We used to go down to Grandma's house
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ev'ry month end or so,
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We'd have chicken pie and country ham 
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'n' home made butter on the bread
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But the best darn thing about Grandma's house 
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was her great big feather bed

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It was nine feet tall and six feet wide
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soft as a downy chick
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It was made from the feathers of forty 'leven geese
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took a whole bolt of cloth for the tick
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It'd hold eight kids 'n' four hound dogs 
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and a piggy we stole frome the shed
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We didn't get much sleep but we had a lot of fun
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on Grandma's feather bed

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After supper we'd sit around the fire 
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the old folks'd spit and chew
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Pa would talk about the farm and the war
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and Granny'd sing a ballad or two
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I'd sit and listen and watch the fire
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till the cobwebs filled my head
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Next thing I'd know I'd wake up in the mornin'
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in the middle of the old feather bed

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It was nine feet tall and six feet wide
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soft as a downy chick
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It was made from the feathers of forty 'leven geese
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took a whole bolt of cloth for the tick
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It'd hold eight kids 'n' four hound dogs 
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and a piggy we stole frome the shed
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We didn't get much sleep but we had a lot of fun
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on Grandma's feather bed

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Well I love my Ma, I love my Pa 
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I love Granny and Grandpa too
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I been fishin' with my uncle
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I rasled with my cousin
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I even kissed Aunt Lou ooo!
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But if I ever had to make a choice
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I guess it oughta be said
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That I'd trade 'em all plus the gal down the road
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for Grandma's feather bed
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I'd trade 'em all plus the gal down the road...

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It was nine feet tall and six feet wide
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soft as a downy chick
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It was made from the feathers of forty 'leven geese
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took a whole bolt of cloth for the tick
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It'd hold eight kids 'n' four hound dogs 
       G			 D
and a piggy we stole frome the shed
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We didn't get much sleep but we had a lot of fun
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on Grandma's feather bed
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We didn't get much sleep but we had a lot of fun
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on Grandma's feather bed